I had my machine jacked up looking for a puncture in the front tire,
I noticed that there is some play, 1/4" to 3/8", when you hold the tire top and bottom and
pull, push. Is this normal? with the tire removed you can grab the lower cv joint and wiggle it and the wheel hub moves as well, not much, but there is some slop.
This slop or play is not noticable when the machine is on the ground.
2000kms on the machine
I have a shop manual and couldn't find anything about play in the front end.
Thanks in advance
Seemer

 

Today I took the hub apart, the bearings were clean as was the grease.
I'm going to keep an eye and ear on it, and hope for the best!
Seemer

 

Make sure the castle nut is torqued properly, if you have that much play I'd replace the wheel bearing if everything else is fine.

 

Thanks for the reply.
The nuts were extremely tight (factory impact I'm guessing)
I will have a look at them again in the fall and change both sides.
Thanks
action450s
Seemer

 

Your bearings may of ground out do to the factory over tightening the castle nut. The nut is suppose to be put on only slightly tighter then hand tight. Not a hard or expensive thing to change.